Capture Streaming Music

[Mikey]

Forgive me if this has been covered before...I don't get to this forum too often.

Anybody know of any good free (or at least not too expensive) way to capture streaming audio / video?

[Donovan]

Audacity is free and can capture anything that goes through your sound card.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

[Screw_Michigan]

good suggestion, don, but i downloaded audacity this summer and couldn't figure it out. i'm not a mensa with computers, but i was using a pretty damn fast cpu and i still couldn't figure out how to split one mp3 file into two.

then again, i remember the first time i was asked to use cooleditpro. "what the fuck?" was the first thing that came out of my piehole.

[Fat Bones]

Old School.

[At Large]

1. Open Audacity
2. Click the Record button (to set the levels)
3. If you don't see anything moving, select "What U Hear" or "Wave" from the source drop-down list
4. Restart the recording
5. When done, click the Stop button
6. Highlight a track
7. Select 'Cut' from Edit menu
8. Open a new window in Audacity
9. Paste in new window
10. Trim the excess time off beginning and end (I usually leave a second unless it's a song that leads into the next one)
11. Select 'Export' as MP3

Pretty simple actually.

[Screw_Michigan]

1. Open Audacity
2. Click the Record button (to set the levels)
3. If you don't see anything moving, select "What U Hear" or "Wave" from the source drop-down list
4. Restart the recording
5. When done, click the Stop button
6. Highlight a track
7. Select 'Cut' from Edit menu
8. Open a new window in Audacity
9. Paste in new window
10. Trim the excess time off beginning and end (I usually leave a second unless it's a song that leads into the next one)
11. Select 'Export' as MP3

Pretty simple actually.

thanks, i'll remember this.

[Mikey]

1. Open Audacity
2. Click the Record button (to set the levels)
3. If you don't see anything moving, select "What U Hear" or "Wave" from the source drop-down list
4. Restart the recording
5. When done, click the Stop button
6. Highlight a track
7. Select 'Cut' from Edit menu
8. Open a new window in Audacity
9. Paste in new window
10. Trim the excess time off beginning and end (I usually leave a second unless it's a song that leads into the next one)
11. Select 'Export' as MP3

Pretty simple actually.

When I do this it only picks up one channel. I'm getting stereo from my speakers, but the VU meter only shows the left channel, there's only one track in the window. When I open the audio track pull down menu it only shows mono, left or right. The "make stereo track" choice is greyed out.

Any ideas? Is this because I don't have a plug in sound card but only the onboard audio system?

[Mikey]

Never mind...I found the preferences dialog box. This is cool now.